AI-powered category strategy
Augment the impact of your category strategy using contextual and accurate external market and category insights with SAP Business AI.
Generative AI–driven insights for category strategy
Get rapid access to cost components and structures to aid strategy creation
Radically reduce strategy creation cycle times by adopting automated market insights
Reduce onboarding time for new category managers by using category segmentation insights
Streamlined category spend management
Get faster, richer, and more accurate category spend insights at scale.
Simplified creation and management of category spend
Enable users to create comprehensive 360-degree category profiles
Create logical and manageable product and service category hierarchies using a purchasing category taxonomy for mapping to existing classifications
Provide instant views into category spend and suppliers based on classified and enriched data
Guided category strategy creation
Use an intuitive strategy creation framework with industry-leading templates and tools.
AI-assisted process for strategy and plan development
Provide guided strategy frameworks and system-recommended opportunities based on industry standards
Follow a step-by-step strategy development process that uses internal spend insights, external market intelligence, and category manager experience
Refine category strategy creation journeys based on segmentation insights with the Kraljic Matrix method
Category tracking dashboards
Track goals, initiatives and actual benefits with a one-stop shop workbench.
Outcome monitoring and execution
Create and manage sourcing projects in SAP Ariba Sourcing to meet goals and initiative targets
Use the built-in category manager cockpit to monitor category performance and take action as needed
Get system-recommended opportunities based on supplier fragmentation insights
Explore the product road map
Product road map
Stay on top of the most exciting, industry-leading, and groundbreaking innovations in SAP Ariba Category Management.